iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 4h

Prejudices so suppressed they can only be ‘whispered’ in a national newspaper.

7737456 374

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Sarah Wise @misssarahwise.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

On #Halloween please join me @citylit.bsky.social for my study day 'Bodysnatching and Anatomy in London, c.1780-c.1845', 10am-4pm. We’ll explore the resurrection men, their working and social lives; the surgeons they supplied; and when grave-robbery turned to murder. Details: shorturl.at/GaOZU

12114 21

Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · 12h

Gorgeous sunshine 🌞 for our @herts.ac.uk Open Day today!! Can't wait to welcome people for BA Sociology 😀

Sign saying "Herts" against large lawn with trees on a sunny morning

170 7

Reposted by Daniel Grey

James McKenzie @jamesmckz.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Vive La France

141172266 1.2K

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

One of the many joys of supervising a PhD is that it gives you a good excuse to read things you've been meaning to read for ages. Got to round out what has been a hectic week by reading this excellent piece from Jagjeet Lally on Fenians, Islam and anti-imperialism. academic.oup.com/ehr/article/...

academic.oup.com

‘Mahomedan Fenians’: Anti-Imperialism, the Islamic World and Irish Republican Thought, c.1848–1885*

Abstract. If Irish republicanism (or Fenianism) after 1848 was sometimes articulated through the critique of British imperialism in Afro-Asia, by the 1870s

1247 24

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

father Jack saying “that would be an ecumenical matter” except it’s just me repeating “that would be a breach of the 2010 equality act” from now until the end of time

116324 163

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I don't particularly mind if one of our students spent a year standing shelves at Tesco and is now travelling the globe on the proceeds (not a graduate job). I want to know they've come back and are happily employed five years after they've left us.

1161 16

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Seriously, the measures that are formally used to rank these things are utterly bananas, and yet teams are scurrying to try and meet these daft metrics because they're all the sector has to go on, and they feed into the newspaper league tables.

2161 16

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

If someone could come up with a better metric than 'we will ask them what they're doing 15 months after they graduate', that would be *splendid*.

2468 46

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Interesting to see the kind of public buffer food stock systems that often (not always) warded off the worst effects of famine in parts of Mughal India before East India Company rule now proposed to help with food price shocks in the UK: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

theguardian.com

‘People’s dignity, and democracy, is at stake’: meet the economist ditching ideology for reality

Exclusive: Isabella Weber prescribes a common-sense solution to poverty, inequality and fascism – making life’s essentials affordable for all

2227 22

Reposted by Daniel Grey

David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

"Hiding their true beliefs" behind a laughably thin veneer of deniability. Anyone prepared to engage their critical faculties for 5 seconds could see through it. But we were consistently shut down with demands that "legitimate concerns" be "respected". And now we're supposed to be shocked.

111933 119

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

#SkyStorians do let colleagues who were recently made redundant or who recently finished their PhD and faced this mad vacuum of a job market know!

02322 23

Reposted by Daniel Grey

David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Undercover journalists have unmasked shocking racism in the "hordes of men of colour are coming to molest our womenfolk" party.

06716 67

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Kate Astbury @100days1815.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The police are investigating. They will have their lines of enquiry. Please share this image widely so that everyone knows what it looked like.

A photo of the stolen plaque taken at its unveiling on Friday

48662 86

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I love it when institutions step up & face the challenges. And this is @ihr.bsky.social stepping up. Sure, will be directly helping only a few people, but what a solace to know clever people are trying to come up with support in the face of the overwhelming crisis. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

The IHR Trust Career Support Scheme 2026-2027

The IHR Trust is pleased to announce the launch of a new Career Support Scheme for historians.

The scheme directly addresses the UK-wide context of cuts, closures and redundancies currently faced by historians. Over 30,000 jobs have been lost within Universities in the past three years, with academic job losses disproportionately affecting Humanities researchers. Redundancies and programme closures have been felt across the four nations and their regions, leading to losses at every level in the academic pipeline.

This context leaves many researchers unable to complete projects in which they have invested considerable time and resource, and which will have real value to the history community and wider public.

The six month Bridging Fellowships are designed to provide a history home for those who need one. They sit alongside the IHR’s other funded schemes which include Doctoral and Post-doctoral Fellowships and Applied History Fellowships, as well as the non-stipendiary IHR Fellowship.

In this first year of the scheme, we will accept applications from those who have lost academic posts within the last three years (dated from the scheme closure date of 31st January 2027) or who have been awarded their PhD within the last three years (dated from the scheme closure date of 31st January 2027). We hope to extend the scheme in later years if funding can be raised to do so.

The Fellowships are designed to provide some of the resources needed to complete unfinished projects including time, money, skills, intellectual infrastructure, mentoring and community. They also provide space and support to plan next career steps, whether back into academia or into other history-related sectors.

Fellows will be supported by the IHR’s training package and encouraged to avail themselves of its resources, publication opportunities, and the national research seminar programme. They will have access to the IHR Library and its dig…

212679 126

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Two incredible books! Well done both authors ❤️

2166 16

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

CfP! 🗃️ Marloes Cornelissen Aydemir, @tommasoaga.bsky.social, @jakedyble.bsky.social and I are very excited to be arranging a conference in Istanbul (13–14 May) on Early Modern Euro-Ottoman Exchange. PhD students/ECRs especially welcome! Please share with anyone who might be interested

Call for Papers: Second Meeting of the Euro-Ottoman Exchange Network

Dates: 13–14 May 2027
Location: Sabancı University, Minerva Han, Beyoğlu, Istanbul

Following the inaugural meeting of the Euro-Ottoman Exchange Network held in Venice in May 2025, we are pleased to announce the Network’s second international conference, hosted at Sabancı University in Istanbul on 13–14 May 2027.

In recent decades, historical study has definitively affirmed that the societies of Europe and those of the Ottoman Empire did not exist in two hermetically sealed worlds, occasionally and imperfectly bridged by European travel writers. Not only did these regions enjoy extensive and intensive contact, they underwent similar transformations and faced shared challenges. Nevertheless, study in a comparative and connected key remains beset by practical difficulties: disciplinary boundaries, nationally-defined historiographies, different educational traditions, and linguistic challenges present real barriers to carrying out the kind of scholarship that our evidence would seem to demand. The Euro-Ottoman Exchange Network brings together scholars working on Europe, the Ottoman Empire, and intersections between the two. It aims, in particular, to forge connections between young scholars from different countries working on these issues, promoting collaboration, shared knowledge, and friendship.

The second conference aims to advance these perspectives by bringing scholars together to connect institutional and subdisciplinary silos and thereby provide a dedicated platform to connect established scholars, early career researchers, and PhD candidates working on European-Ottoman exchange.

We invite paper proposals addressing all dimensions of Early Modern (c. 1450–1800) European-Ottoman exchange. Contributions may address, but are not limited to, the following themes:

Institutions, Capitulations, and Legal Realities

New Diplomatic History & Intermediaries

Material Culture and Spaces of Encounter

Violence, Coercion, and Non-State Actors

Mobility, Science, and Environment

We encourage submissions from scholars at all career stages, particularly PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and early-career faculty.
Interested applicants should submit a single PDF containing:
An abstract of ca. 350 words, clearly outlining the research question, sources/methodology, and connection to the conference theme.

A short bio (ca. 250 words), including institutional affiliation and contact details.

Submission Email: euroottomannetwork@gmail.com
Important information
Call for Papers Deadline: 1 December 2026
Notification of Acceptance: 15 January 2027
Conference Dates: 13–14 May 2027
Conference fee: to be determined, but estimated at 60 euros. We are making applications for external funding; if secured, we will prioritise supporting early career researchers with their expenses (conference fee, conference dinner, travel, accommodation)

For further information or general inquiries, please contact the organizing committee at euroottomannetwork@gmail.com

11717 17

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Martin Spychal @martinspychal.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Really looking forward to the first IHR Parliaments, Politics & People seminar of term, this Tuesday (20 October)! Frederick Hyde will be talking about the Arrow affair, the 1857 election and Palmerston. FREE in London and online. Sign-up details here: historyofparliament.com/2026/10/13/c...

historyofparliament.com

China on the Hustings: The Arrow Affair and British Identity during the 1857 General Election - The History of Parliament

Frederick Hyde of the University of Southampton, discusses ‘China on the Hustings: The Arrow Affair and British Identity during the 1857 General Election’.

0410 10

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

IHR-RHS DC Thomson Applied History Fellowships launch today. Scheme for UK-based recent post-1500 British or Irish History PhDs, providing a 6-month bursary of £12,250 to expand their career opportunities while applying their historical skills in a workplace. #Skystorians

royalhistsoc.org

Applied History Fellowships - Royal Historical Society

In November 2025, the Royal Historical Society, Institute of Historical Research (IHR) and publisher DC Thomson launched a new Applied History Fellowship partnership to support recent post-doctorate h...

24152 52

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Elaine Murphy @plymprivateer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

CFP for the British Commission for Maritime History conference in May 2027 which will be held in Greenwich is now live www.maritimehistory.org.uk/new-research...

maritimehistory.org.uk

New Researchers in Maritime History Conference

A conference to support emerging scholars who wish to share their work in a supportive environment and build relations with other maritime historians

01821 21

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Fundamentally, teaching humans is activity that requires high amounts of human labor per student and that is a real problem for people who are annoyed at the concept of paying for human labor.

3428126 428

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Caribbean Philosophical Association @caribphil.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

“The University of Birmingham, where Hall developed the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, has digitised and released more than 3,100 items donated by his widow, the historian Catherine Hall.”

theguardian.com

Thatcherism via the Walkman: Stuart Hall’s British cultural studies preserved online

Project lead says it celebrates ‘incredible contributions’ Jamaica-born sociologist made to Britain’s culture

01514 15

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Heard of Desi pubs? A unique Birmingham phenomenon & truly reflective of our global society. My new #@OnlyinBirmingham podcast with Raj Pal Available wherever you get your podcasts pod.link/1852555730/e...

pod.link

#3 Desi pubs

Listen to #3 Desi pubs from Only in Birmingham wherever you get your podcasts!

092 9

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I have never seen coverage of a live trial, one involving allegations of multiple sex attacks on multiple women, framed in a more distasteful way. It's not 'Fame under fire' it's a rape trial. And it involves actual women. And this from the *checks notes* BBC

2094194909 4.2K

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

“The monster is so hungry it might attack, unless you sacrifice one of your villagers” is a classic fairytale

851655483 1.7K

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The campaign of educational censorship sweeping Texas and other GOP-governed states in the name of “free speech” and “diversity of viewpoint” in many ways exceeds the worst of the McCarthy Era (gift link obvs) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

141216402 1.2K

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Dr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Impeccable timing as I prepare this week's teaching materials on contemporary far-right iconography/discourse and distant pasts... thanks Marco. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

politico.com

Rubio warns Europe faces ‘inflection point’

Rubio used the Acropolis as a backdrop for demanding Europe return to ideals of ancient Greece and turn away from “a world devoid of risk of failure.”

031 3

Reposted by Daniel Grey

folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Quite a number of movies set in the southern part of Nigeria depict the area as being savannah grassland when it is thick tropical forest. E.g., Tears of the Sun, Sahara, Half of a Yellow Sun etc. www.oneearth.org/ecoregions/n...

oneearth.org

Nigerian Lowland Forests | One Earth

This ecoregion is confined to a narrow, gently undulating coastal plain of 150 m altitude, along the coast in the southwest of Nigeria.

34111 41

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

When people say witches were burnt at the stake ESPECIALLY in North America where they were HANGED (not hung) throughout history most people burned at the stake were heretics, not witches THANK YOU

925125 251

Reposted by Daniel Grey

David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Teaching the Portuguese arrival in the Indian Ocean today on my Emperors, Shoguns, and Trading Companies module and I’ve integrated an audio file into the PowerPoint (I know right?) of the Jaws themetune when I first mention Europeans.

static.klipy.com

Great White Shark Bite - Nat Geo Explores

ALT: Great White Shark Bite - Nat Geo Explores

3241 24

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Even after executions were taken out of the public domain in 1868, people still gathered at prisons and waited for a death they could neither see nor hear.

3112 11

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

And sometimes I wonder if I would have gone to such an event. At a time when it must have seemed that everyone was going (because they were) How much peer pressure to go and see?

3121 12

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

And I think about the vast crowds that left home at 4am to get there in time (executions were usually at 8am) and the condemned led to a scaffold placed as high as possible for everyone to get a good view and the reported sense of anticlimax afterwards

1132 13

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

… the hypocrisy of a media who condemned public attendance while simultaneously publishing the graphic details. I think about the pamphlets, hastily put together and sometimes rendered useless by a last minute reprise. I think about the pie sellers…

1182 18

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I think about the death penalty locally a lot. I think about how a magistrate’s bench could condemn a man to death in Peterborough until 1828. I think about the three different gallows sites that I am aware of (doubtless others existed) and…

23214 32

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If the FT reports this, perhaps the evisceration of UK universities is now a legit *economic* challenge, and politicians might finally be moved to *do* something?!

0156 15

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

www.thetimes.com/article/082b...

29312 93

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

'“Certainly around the impact agenda, there are some tweaks [in REF2029] that are trying to address the localism that was felt to be underpowered or undervalued, and I hope the panels will do a bit more on that,” she said.'

133 3

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

'This would focus not just on what universities do but “the value that they drive into the local economy and bring back”, she said, adding that indicators could be developed to measure this contribution.'

122 2

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

'Speaking at a Foundation for Science and Technology discussion on the devolution of science and innovation spending last week, Jessica Corner (pictured) said universities’ role in generating value for their local economies would become a greater focus.'

183 8

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

In 2012-13, there were 51 UK universities offering Russian and East European Studies. In 2024-25, there were 32, and provision is shrinking further. Perhaps that's a serious security risk? www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...

49941 99

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Rachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This isn’t a “controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr,” this is “playing with the lives of vulnerable infants in a developing nation, which is being pushed by malicious grifters who couldn’t care less about the innocent lives they hurt.”

theguardian.com

Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau

10594182 594

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Rachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

“Guinea-Bissau has some of the highest rates of hepatitis B in the world, with about 18% of adults carrying the virus. While it may be transmitted from mother to child during birth, it could also be transmitted from another parent, relatives, siblings or caregivers.”

theguardian.com

Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau

228364 283

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Rachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.

theguardian.com

Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau

12623841033 2.4K

Reposted by Daniel Grey

Elaine Ayers @eayers0.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A bit weird that this piece doesn't reference any of the historians who have published on exactly this before (myself included!), but I'll take any excuse to read about plant carnivory, which I'm teaching in lecture this week + is always a hit with students. orionmagazine.org/article/a-ta...

orionmagazine.org

A Taste for Meat - Orion Magazine

How carnivorous plants trouble the order of things

161 6